KATHY KANEWSKE

These Days (Mayim MM 1001) 1976

Kathy Kanewske – These Days front

A beautiful mellow custom folk lp minus any of the sugary trappings frequently heaped upon ccm ladies. Four of Kathy’s friends join in providing guitar, percussion and charming harmonies, while Kathy sings lead and plays keyboards – together all five call themselves Touchstone. Her songs may be joyful and upbeat with a touch of country, or they may evoke the pathos of a moving classical piece (such as the flute, violin, and piano that embrace the delicate ballad ‘Song Of Joel’). A nice wholesome rustic quality throughout. From an Austin, Texas ministry as Community Of The Well. (The Archivist by Ken Scott, 4th Edition).

Download a free copy WinRar if you use a Windows machine. It is an archiving program. Once you have it installed you can double click on the downloaded music file to open it. Or you can open WinRar find the file and click on it. If you are using a Mac there are a number of free archiving programs that you can use. If you use a Linux system there are several archiving programs that will also open the files. When the files have been un-archived you will have a file with either another file or several files or MP3’s. The MP3’s can be used to burn an audio CD, or played on an MP3 player on your computer or loaded onto an MP3 player.

I am the same age as Cheri Pickins, whose father was the original spiritual leader at the Well. My fondest dream was to sing with her at the Coffeehouse, but I didn’t have the courage to even try. Needless to say, I idolized Yolie and Kathy, both enough older to seem like wondrous creatures, all that I hoped to become.

Yolie married Mark, and with Kathy she wrote a Mass that was used at St David’s in Austin, TX. I remember that Yolie performed on a children’s program, possibly on PBS, and afterwards I lost track of her.

Jim Janknegt is quite the successful artist working out of Elgin. His art is a joy.